Collar-supporter.



J. W. SGHLOSS. COLLAR SUPPORTER.

APPLIGATION FILED 110v.1,1911.

1,040,026. 1 Patented 001.1, 1912.

JOSEPH WILLIAM SCI-ILOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COLLAR-SUPPORTER.

Application filed November 1, 1911. Serial No. 657,986.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr W. SOHLOSS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the borough of Manhattan and State of NewYork, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in-Collar-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to garment stiffeners, and more particularly toan improved supporter for ladies collars and the like.

I am aware that collar supporters formed of looped or bent filamentarymaterial have been presented to the notice of the public; and I am awarealso that it is common to wrap a covering of thread upon wire used forthis purpose in order to conceal said wire to some measure when in useand to protectively coat or cover the same. I hence do not lay claimbroadly to wire collar supporters nor to covered collar supporters; butI have devised a novel stiffener of the type in question in which thecover is preferably applied only to certain portions of the wire orfilament and in which the covering material is itself there disposed ina manner particularly adapted for the purpose in question.

In brief, it is the aim of the present invention to so place thecovering material upon a stiffener body as to afford excellentprotection to the neck or body of the wearer from said wire, while usinga minimum quantity of said material; and to further so dispose saidmaterial as to facilitate the application of stitches thereto when thedevice is being sewed to a garment, and also to hold the thickness ofsaid device to a minimum.

These and other objects of my invention will be hereinafter referred toand the novel structure whereby they are attained'will be particularlyset forth in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which likereference characters designate like parts throughout the several views:Figure 1 is a front view of a preferred form of collar supporter, drawnto a large scale. Fig. 2 is a detail section taken on line II-II of Fig.1; the section being drawn to a still larger scale.

The filamentary body 1 of the stiffener is preferably bent'or corrugatedin a single plane in a well known manner, and is also provided with eyesor rings 2 at its respective extremities. The wire may of course beenameled as at 3 in various colors to match the garment or fabric towhich it is to be applied, so that the body 1 may be substantiallyinvisible when in place. This portion of the stiffener, especially whenmade without sharp bends, does not tend to chafe the skin of the wearersince itlies flat thereagainst and is moderately flexible and elastic.The eye portions, per se, however are more stiff and unyielding than thebody portion of the device and are furthermore normally so disposed withrespect, for example, to the neck of the wearer, when in use, that theskin of the latter tends to loop or fold down thereover when the head isbent sidewise. In other words, I have discovered, for one thing, thatthe essential points of the filamentary body to be protectively covered,are these ends or eyes, and that normally the body, proper, of thedevice may be left uncovered not only without likelihood of injury tothe wearer, but with actual advantage, since thereby the bulk of thedevice may be held at a minimum thickness, no covering, other thanpossibly enamel, or the like, being applied thereto in my preferred formof stifiener. Aside from this improvement in structure and the obvioussaving in covering material effected by so curtailing the coveringmaterial, I desire particularly to direct attention to the novel mannerin which said material is applied to these ends or eyes.

In the preferred form of device, exemplified, thread 4 is wrapped aroundthe sections of wire or rings forming the respective eyes 2; .but thewrapping is preferably not such as is usually employed to cover wire butrather is accomplished by orocheting or some analogous stitch, thethreads of silk, cotton, or like material, being quite snugly drawn intocontact with the wire rings, but being loosely knotted or woven in aflat annulus 5 extending radially beyond each ring and forming in effectan annular cushion, the thickness of which in a radial direction ispreferably greater than that of the covered wire ring in a lateraldirection. In this manner a soft deep or thick cushion is provided justwhere it is needed without increasing the thickness of the device beyondthat of a thread covered wire.

Had it been attempted to merely wrap several layers of thread around theeye portion in order to produce the end cushion a bulky and clumsystiffener would have been the result; but by applying preferably but asingle layer of thread, tightly drawn, to the eyes, and croc'heting orotherwise forming a soft and preferably quite fiat annular cushiontherearound, I provide a covering which is free from objectionablethickness and which furthermore is more soft and yielding than merewrapped thread, or indeed the ordinary woven fabric commonly used forcovering purposes of this description. Finally, in securing thestiflener in place the open-work fabric annulus is most readily stitchedthrough; the needle penetrating the interstices thereof with ease andwith far greater facility than it could be driven through tightly drawn,wrapped or woven threads and especially when such wrapped threads aredisposed in superposed layers. 20

While I have described my invention in Copies of this patent may beobtained for JOSEPH \VILLIAM SCHLOSS.

Witnesses:

MAURICE ABELs, WILLIAM CAL LANG.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latcnts,

Washington, D. G.

